Introduced into Rome (c. 200 BC) from Magna Graecia or by way of Greek-influenced Etruria, the bacchanalia were held in secret and attended by women only, in the grove of Simila, near the Aventine Hill, on 16 and 17 March. [...] Dionysus is equated with both Bacchus and Liber (also Liber Pater). Liber ("the free one") was a god of fertility, wine, and growth, married to Libera. [...] Evius is an epithet of his used prominently in Euripides' play, The Bacchae. (Source: Wikipedia on Cult of Dionysus)
And in Biblical context:
HERE Symmachus, greatly wondering at what was spoken, says: What, Lamprias, will you permit our tutelar God, called Evius, the inciter of women, famous for the honors he has conferred upon him by madmen, to be inscribed and enrolled in the mysteries of the Jews? Or is there any solid reason that can be given to prove Adonis to be the same with Bacchus? (Source: Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, bk. 4, ch. 6)
In tone this is very similar to the Buddhist one, having a seeming fertility ritual connotation.
